February 15, 2010 - Worcester Business Journal

News

Incorporations for November 1 – 15, 2009

These Central Massachusetts businesses filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office between November 1...

Real Estate

Fitchburg Housing Saga Secures Boston Developer | Legal, financing woes plague elderly and low-income project

Fran Colantonio and Robert Hill both want the same thing: To get a public housing project in...

News

Photo Finish From The February 15, 2010 Issue Of The WBJ

Nonprofits

The Difference Between Governing And Managing

You’ve just been asked to serve on the board of directors of a nonprofit organization. ...

Small Business

Knowhow – Employee Engagement | Tips for managing direct reports 365 days a year

Motivating employees and creating a high-performance workforce is, at its heart, all about communication. How managers interact...

Small Business

Mass. Union Membership Up In 2009

The total number of unionized workers in Massachusetts rose in 2009, even as the workforce as a...

News

Contents Of The February 15, 2010 Issue Of The WBJ

Issue Highlights ...

Government & Politics

Eye Of The Storm | Economic turmoil has turned up the heat on the already tough job of town administrator

On the cold and snowy morning of the U.S. Senate special election in mid-January, Shrewsbury Town Administrator...

Government & Politics

Enjoying The Sunshine

The old saying “sunshine is the best antiseptic” is a familiar phrase. Fortunately, when it comes to...

Government & Politics

Highest And Best

And while user friendliness is the topic, the Worcester City Council must become more so. Last month,...

News

WBJ Talk Back In The February 15, 2010 Issue

“Tax credit for new jobs!?!? Small businesses don’t need workers, they need customers! What a ‘great...

Nonprofits

The Legal Perspective | The basics of what every nonprofit board member needs to know about their duties and responsibilities

With the economic downturn, more attention is being focused on nonprofit organizations, specifically how they are run...

Manufacturing

Shop Talk: Q&A With Robert Willett, Cognex Corp.

They take their corporate culture very seriously over at Natick-based Cognex Corp. Employees aren’t employees, they’re “cognoids,”...

Government & Politics

Tax Code Reform Should Keep Health In Mind

How do you attach a dollar figure to a value? That’s the unenviable job that...

Advice

101 The Business Lunch

You conduct meetings all the time and you eat lunch every day. What could possibly go wrong...

Economy

The Glass Floor | Report shows budget cuts frustrate women’s work force entry

A couple of recent studies have pointed to women’s growing role in the work force: women are...

Manufacturing

A Cream From On High | UMass doc turns over skin care product to local order of monks

I don’t often feature businesses that do not make their products in Central Massachusetts, but I do...

Banking & Finance

Venture Firms Are Looking For The Exits | With the IPO market still weak, VC investment is hard to come by

Mark Terrell, founder of SepSensor Inc. in Marlborough, pretty much gave up on looking for venture capital...

Professional Services

Business Groups Get Behind CORI Reform

You might think the business community would be quick to lash out at a proposed law that...

Real Estate

High Hopes Traded For Idle Hands In South County

The boom years seemed almost too good to be true for Southern Worcester County. Major commercial developments...

Real Estate

Rockport To Vacate Lancaster Building, Move Jobs South

The Rockport shoe company will vacate its warehouse and outlet space in Lancaster this fall, and building...

Nonprofits

The Chairman’s View | Tales from the trenches of leading a nonprofit board in Central Massachusetts

On the surface Fitchburg State College, Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Care and the Danforth Museum in Framingham...

Professional Services

Letter To Editor – Death Of Print Greatly Exaggerated

Editor's Note: We received a response to the letter below disputing claims that CentralMassNews.com is a franchise...

Advice

10 Things I Know About… Web Videos

Joe Pagano is president of Pagano Media in Worcester. He can be reached at joe@paganomedia.com. 10....

Technology

Keeping Up With The Webbies

This era could easily be defined as the “Age of Anxiety.” Anyone, and I put myself in...

Nonprofits

What To Do When The Top Executive Isn’t The Boss | How nonprofit heads evaluate board performance

What’s an executive director to do? A board of directors made up of some of the...

News

Hospital Execs React To AG’s Report On Health Care

Walter Ettinger, president of the Worcester-based UMass Memorial Medical Center, said when he speaks to colleagues at...

Energy

Briefing: Energy Efficiency

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) recently approved the final plans to commit the state’s investor-owned...

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